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Hip: the History
by John Leland  Publisher Comments Hip: The History is the story of how American pop culture has evolved throughout the twentieth century to its current position as world cultural touchstone. How did hip become such an obsession? From sex and music to fashion and commerce, John Leland...
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Thinking Space
by Publisher Comments Thinking Space looks at a range of social theorists and asks what role space plays in their work, what difference (if any) it makes to their concepts, and what difference such an appreciation makes to the way we might think about space....
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Everyday Life and Cultural Theory
by Ben Highmore Publisher Comments Ben Highmore traces the development of conceptions of everyday life, from Georg Simmel's cultural sociology, through the Mass-Observation project of the thirties to theorists such as Michel Curteau....
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Special Stories for Disability Awareness: Stories and Activities for Teachers, Parents and Professionals
by Mal, Leicester Publisher Comments Stories both educate and entertain. We learn from them and the learning is fun. They also stimulate our imagination and creativity. In this collection of short stories, the heroes and heroines are disabled children who defy the stereotypes associated...
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In Search of the True West: Culture, Economics, and Problems of Russian Development
by Esther Kingston-Mann Publisher Comments This ground-breaking work documents Russian efforts to appropriate Western solutions to the problem of economic backwardness since the time of Catherine the Great. Entangled then as now with issues of cultural borrowing, educated Russians searched for...
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Learning Identity
by Stanton Wortham Publisher Comments This book describes how social identification and academic learning can deeply depend on each other, both through a theoretical account of the two processes and a detailed empirical analysis of how students' identities emerge and how students learn...
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The Boiled Frog Syndrome: Your Health and the Built Environment
by Thomas Saunders Publisher Comments A frog jumps into a pot of water which is gradually being heated. As the water gets warmer, the frog adjusts its body temperature and continues to adjust to the increasing water temperature until, ultimately, the frog is boiled alive. Like the frog, we...
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365 Ways To Change the World: How to Make a Difference-- One Day at a Time
by Michael, Norton Publisher Comments You want to make a difference in the world, but don't know where to begin. Now you can. Here is just the guide to lots of exciting ways that are more personal and fun than merely writing a check. For every day of the year, 365 Ways to Change the World is...
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White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in North India
by Sarah Lamb Publisher Comments This rich ethnography explores beliefs and practices surrounding aging in a rural Bengali village. Sarah Lamb focuses on how villagers' visions of aging are tied to the making and unmaking of gendered selves and social relations over a lifetime. Lamb...
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A Scientific Model of History
by Juan Jose Gomez-Ibarra Publisher Comments Have you ever wanted to know why civilizations decay or why war has been a recurrent phenomena throughout history; what are the forces causing population explosions, and why it is very likely that the power balance between today's developed countries and...
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Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore
by Ron Powers Publisher Comments Ron Powers' hometown is Hannibal, Missouri, birthplace of Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, and therefore birthplace of our conception of boyhood itself. Powers has returned to Hannibal several times; this time it is to chronicle the horrific story of two...
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Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism
by Bob Edwards Publisher Comments The host of NPR's Morning Edition chronicles the rise of radio and television news In this brisk and incisive account, Bob Edwards shows us how Edward R. Murrow helped establish broadcast journalism— and, in the process, reminds us how far most...
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100 People Who Are Screwing Up America
by Bernard Goldberg Publisher Comments The number one New York Times bestselling author of Bias delivers another bombshell—this time aimed at . . . 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America No preaching. No pontificating. Just some uncommon sense about the things that have made this...
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Shopping for God: How Christianity Went From in Your Heart To in Your Face
by James B. Twitchell Publisher Comments Not so long ago religion was a personal matter that was seldom discussed in public. No longer. Today religion is everywhere, from books to movies to television to the internet-to say nothing about politics. Now religion is marketed and advertised like...
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Contesting Global Governance
by Robert O'Brien Publisher Comments The contest to shape global governance is increasingly being conducted on a number of levels and among a diverse set of actors. This book argues that increasing engagement between international institutions and sectors of civil society is producing a new...
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Music in Everyday Life
by Tia DeNora Publisher Comments Shows how music is central to the construction and regulation of everyday life....
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To Love, Honor, and Betray
by Stephanie Gertler Publisher Comments The authors take an intimate and sensitive look at the lives of 26 married or previously married women who have either had an affair, are having an affair, or are wrestling with their conflicting emotions and loyalties as they consider the possibility of...
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Families Count
by Alison Clarke-Stewart Publisher Comments This book is concerned with the question of how families matter in young people's development - a question of obvious interest and importance to a wide range of readers, which has serious policy implication. A series of key current topics concerning...
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Quantitative Data Analysis with SPSS Release 10 for Windows
by Synopsis The latest edition of this best-selling textbook has been completely updated to accommodate the needs of users of SPSS Release 10 for Windows. As with previous editions, the authors provide a non-technical approach to quantitative data analysis and a...
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The Theory Of Social Revolutions
by Brooks Adams Publisher Comments Municipal law, to be satisfactory, should be a body of abstract principles capable of being applied impartially to all relevant facts, just as Marshall and Jay held it to be. Where exceptions begin, equality before the law ends, as I have tried to show...
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